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沉积

chén jī

2-character word Traditional 沉積

What 沉积 means

1. sediment
2. deposit
3. sedimentation (geology)

The characters in 沉积

• 沉chénto submerge; to immerse; to sink
• 积jīto amass; to accumulate; to store up; (math) product (the result of multiplication)…

Example sentences

• 调查人员的结论基于对取自东非大裂谷坦噶尼喀湖底部的一块距今 6 万年的沉积物岩芯的分析。坦噶尼喀湖位于东非大裂谷，与蒲隆地、刚果民主共和国、坦尚尼亚和尚比亚接壤，是世界第二深的淡水湖。
  Investigators base their conclusion on an analysis of a 60,000-year-old sediment core extracted from the bottom Lake Tanganyika in the East African Rift Valley, which borders Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania and Zambia. The lake is the world's second deepest fresh water lake.

Words starting with 沉积

• 沉积带chén jī dàisedimentary belt (geology)
• 沉积物chén jī wùsediment
• 沉积作用chén jī zuò yòngsedimentation (geology)
• 沉积岩chén jī yánsedimentary rock (geology)

Words containing 沉积

• 海相沉积物hǎi xiāng chén jī wùoceanic sediment (geology)
• 血色素沉积症xuè sè sù chén jī zhènghemochromatosis
• 碎屑沉积物suì xiè chén jī wùclastic sediment